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Physicists who found a new elementary particle last year said on Wednesday it looked like a basic Higgs boson rather than any "super-Higgs" that some cosmologists had hoped might open up more exotic secrets of the universe.

"A new study demonstrates what researchers consider conclusive evidence that
the red wine compound resveratrol directly activates a protein that promotes
health and longevity in animal models. What's more, the researchers have
uncovered the molecular mechanism for this interaction, and show that a class of
more potent drugs currently in clinical trials act in a similar fashion. Pharmaceutical
compounds similar to resveratrol may potentially treat and prevent diseases
related to aging in people, the authors contend."

If you don't want to drink, another good source of trans-resveratrol, which is more bioavailable, is vinegar produced from red wines (red wine vinegar, balsamic). It's actually much more concentrated as well due to the second fermentation process. I try to have some (with olive oil) on salad daily.

Interesting theory. I've heard lots of competing theories such as lower birth rate, inability of their shoulder joints to accurately throw spears (they favored close range hunting, apparently), or simply being trampled by the more populous homo sapiens as they migrated north. I wonder if it might be a little bit of each. Of course, there's also the idea that seems to be gaining traction that at least some of them were absorbed into modern humanity. That had been a theory for years, but it seems to be gathering more support from several new studies.

The Lazarus Project team says they have been able to recover cell nuclei of the extinct gastric-brooding frog, Rheobatrachus silus, from tissues collected in the 1970s and kept for 40 years in a conventional deep freezer.

The genome of Rheobatrachus silus, extinct since 1983, has been revived and reactivated by a team of scientists using somatic cell nuclear transfer
to implant a "dead" cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species.

Rheobatrachus silus is famous for swallowing its eggs, brooded its young in its stomach and giving birth through its mouth. The "de-extinction" project aims to bring the frog back to life.

In repeated experiments over five years, the researchers used somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which is banned by the Obama administration in the United States. They took fresh donor eggs from the distantly related Great Barred Frog, Mixophyes fasciolatus, inactivated the egg nuclei and replaced them with dead nuclei from the extinct frog.

Some of the eggs spontaneously began to divide and grow to early embryo stage – a tiny ball of many living cells.

Although none of the embryos survived beyond a few days, genetic tests confirmed that the dividing cells contain the genetic material from the extinct frog.

"We are watching Lazarus arise from the dead, step by exciting step," says the leader of the Lazarus Project team, Professor Mike Archer, of the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. "We've reactivated dead cells into living ones and revived the extinct frog's genome in the process. Now we have fresh cryo-preserved cells of the extinct frog to use in future cloning experiments.

"We're increasingly confident that the hurdles ahead are technological and not biological and that we will succeed. Importantly, we've demonstrated already the great promise this technology has as a conservation tool when hundreds of the world's amphibian species are in catastrophic decline."
The technical work was led by Dr Andrew French and Dr Jitong Guo, formerly of Monash University, in a University of Newcastle laboratory led by frog expert, Professor Michael Mahony, along with Mr Simon Clulow and Dr John Clulow. The frozen specimens were preserved and provided by Professor Mike Tyler, of the University of Adelaide, who extensively studied both species of gastric-brooding frog – R. silus and R. vitellinus - before they vanished in the wild in 1979 and 1985 respectively.

UNSW's Professor Archer spoke publicly for the first time today about the Lazarus Project and also about his ongoing interest in cloning the extinct Australian thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger, at the TEDx DeExtinction event in Washington DC, hosted by Revive and Restore and the National Geographic Society.

Researchers from around the world are gathered there to discuss progress and plans to 'de-extinct' other extinct animals and plants. Possible candidate species include the woolly mammoth, dodo, Cuban red macaw and New Zealand's giant moa.

The results are yet to be published.

One step closer till the real Jurassic Park...

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Moa didn't go extinct. Their dwarven variant is still in NZ...known as Kiwis.

And there are supposedly those which are the size of ostriches.

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Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

Mammoths next please.
If there is anything like an evolutionary aquired taste in humans, they must be delicious.

Why don't you fly down to Thailand and have a taste of their descendants?

And it might improve your "performance" the next Oktoberfest.

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When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus.
Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

Buffalo meat is rather good as is ostrich. Both can be found at Fudruckers.

I love buffalo meat. Really nice flavor, great for chili. I've only had ostrich in the form of jerky, would like to try an actual cut of meat from it. I'm actually a huge fan of trying out exotic meat, would love to try kangaroo some time too.

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the local Fudruckers also has Elk (or was it moose?) didn't taste any different then beef.